Grumpy Editortag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-4902352017-09-25T06:12:00-07:00Critical observations of print/broadcast/Web media plus public relations and advertisingTypePadSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with FeedlySubscribe with SubToMeSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with Daily Rotationtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c86cf53ef01b8d2adf110970c2017-09-25T06:12:00-07:002017-09-25T07:56:48-07:00Grumpy Editor notes TV hurricane reporters, on camera fighting strong wind and rain, constantly remind viewers in the storm’s path that: “You shouldn’t be out here, but I am.”Grumpy Editor<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">STORM REPORTING NOT EXACTLY LIKE 'SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN'</span></p>
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<p><em style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Grumpy Editor</strong> </em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;">notes TV hurricane reporters, on camera fighting strong wind and rain, constantly remind viewers in the storm’s path that: “You shouldn’t be out here, but I am.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">It’s a bit different than the happy script and long-popular title song in the 1952 film, “Singin' in the Rain," starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Instead of braving the risky elements in storms, often standing in knee-high water and dodging downed power lines, reporting on latest weather conditions and events could just as well be done --- perhaps even better --- in the confines of a dry, safe and windless TV studio.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">But standing out in the elements with microphone in hand is the way severe weather reporting has been conducted for years. News editors figure that’s the way to go.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">“Reporters out there make me sick!,” tweets an <em>ABC</em> viewer who was watching the network’s wet and wind-blown storm reporter in Naples, Florida describe the “suction” force of the gale. “Go home, be safe and stop grand standing,” adds the viewer.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Another mentions, "God Bless our intrepid reporters, but have you never heard the expression hadn't got enough sense to come in out of the rain?”</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>WEATHER COOLING IN CALIFORNIA?</strong> California’s Sierra Nevada mountains experiences snowfall a month earlier than usual last week. <strong> Snow plows had to be called. </strong> But global warming (er, climate change) folks are silent on this meteorological development in the Sunshine State.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>HOLLYWOOD AWARDS SHOWS GET POLITICAL.</strong> TV viewers tune into awards shows to check out winners and be entertained, <strong>not to hear chatter reserved for political programs</strong> — which is a sure way to see audiences dwindle.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>TOUGH TALK SHAKES UP SOME MEDIA. </strong> President Donald Trump, in his United Nations speech,<strong> disturbs some in media after vowing to destroy North Korea</strong> should the communist country attack the U.S. Trump referred to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as “Rocket Man” and said he was on a "suicide mission" in advancing the country's nuclear weapons development. Trump mentions the U.S.,“if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.” An example of media reaction: an <em>Associated Press</em> reporter says, “Rocket Man" may get headlines, but the president of the United States just threatened to eradicate a nation of 25 million people."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>ARMY BRASS PUT IN SPOTLIGHT.</strong> The <strong>U.S. Army plans a series of mental health, counseling and career management programs</strong> which it hopes will shape stronger, more ethical leaders, focusing more on building character than on berating bad conduct. The move comes as an effort to help deal with an embarrassing number of misconduct and behavior problems among senior officers. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>PC TO STRANGLE COMEDY?</strong> Society's <strong>"stupidly politically correct" sensibilities will lead to the "death of comedy,</strong>" veteran comedian Mel Brooks, tells <em>BBC</em>. He adds that political correctness is becoming a stranglehold on comedians. “It's not good for comedy. Comedy has to walk a thin line, take risks.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>BUDGET HITS ANOTHER COLLEGE NEWSPAPER.</strong> University of Louisville campus newspaper, <em>the Cardinal</em>, will stop getting funds from the university by the end of next year’s spring semester. The university blames the end of funding on the school's $48 million budget shortfall.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>WORLD WAR I SUB LOCATED</strong>. An intact <strong>German World War I submarine containing the bodies of 23 sailors is found in the North Sea</strong> off the coast of Belgium. The UB II-type dive boat is described as 88 feet long, 20 feet wide and about 90 feet below the surface.</span></p></div><div class="feedflare">
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Nightly TV news broadcasts from June 1 to Aug. 31 were 91 percent negative in covering President Donald Trump and his administration, tallies the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.mrc.org/" rel="homepage noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Media Research Center">Media Research Center</a>, notes <em><strong>Grumpy Editor</strong>.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">MRC adds <em><a class="zem_slink" href="http://abcnews.com/wn" rel="homepage noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="ABC World News Tonight">ABC's World News Tonight</a></em>, the <em><a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/evening-news/" rel="homepage noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="CBS Evening News">CBS Evening News</a></em> and <em><a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.hulu.com/nbc-nightly-news-with-brian-williams" rel="hulu noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams">NBC Nightly News</a></em> presented just nine percent positive coverage of Trump and his administration.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">This compares with 89 percent negative coverage by the three major networks in the first three months of the Trump presidency.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">During the summer, MRC calculates 415 minutes of broadcast time was spent covering the investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, with 94 percent of that negative.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Repealing and replacing Obamacare and Trump's response to the Charlottesville riots last month each brought 97 percent negative coverage, adds MRC.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>BIG WIND ON OTHER SIDE OF U.S.</strong><strong> </strong> With broadcast and print media focusing on hurricane activity from Texas to the East Coast, overlooked is an unusual 100 m.p.h. wind and flooding from a thunderstorm that tore the roof off a historic building and damaged a half dozen other structures in <strong><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.2419444444,-116.825833333&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=36.2419444444,-116.825833333 (Death%20Valley%20National%20Park)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Death Valley National Park">Death Valley National Park</a></strong>. It also blew out windows of several park employees' vehicles.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>POVERTY HITS CALIFORNIANS.</strong> The U.S. Census Bureau says <strong>one in five Californians lives in poverty,</strong> highest rate in the country. It estimates 20.4 percent of Golden State residents lived below the poverty line in a three-year average, 2014 to 2016.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>MILITARY PROVIDES HURRICANE AID.</strong><strong> </strong> The Pentagon reports it <strong>mobilized nearly 30,000 military personnel for recovery operations along Hurricane Irma’s path</strong> from the U.S. Virgin islands to north of Atlanta.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>OPRAH JOINS 60 MINUTES. </strong> Oprah Winfrey, one of TV’s best-known celebrity interviewers, <strong>next Sunday debuts on <em>CBS’ 60 Minutes.</em> </strong> With the TV newsmagazine entering its 50th anniversary year, she will be reporting on America’s political divisions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>POLICE SEARCH FOR STOLEN PET PIG.</strong> Cleveland <strong>police are looking for Spam, a 15-pound mini-pet pig that was taken during a home break-in</strong>. “It’s just sad somebody would do this,” says its owner who acquired the one-year-old mini pig when he was a piglet. “He’s part of our family. Keep the electronics, but don’t take somebody’s pet.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>ADULTS GO TO BED WITH STUFFED ANIMALS.</strong> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:BBW" rel="googlefinance noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="NYSE: BBW">Build-A-Bear Workshop</a>, in a survey of 2,000 Americans, finds <strong>40 percent of adults — many from childhood — take stuffed animals to bed with them.</strong></span></p>
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PENTAGON STILL DEPENDS ON VINTAGE RUSSIAN-MADE ROCKET ENGINES<br>
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With all the negative talk focusing on Russia and the White House in recent months, most media are unaware that the U. S. Defense Department has to rely on Russian-made rocket engines for another seven or even up to 11 years, notes Grumpy Editor.<br>
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United Launch Alliance, the Pentagon’s primary rocket supplier, “likely will continue flying some 1990s-vintage Atlas V boosters with Russian-built engines through 2024 or 2025,” reveals Andy Pasztor, writer for The Wall Street Journal.<br>
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“The Russian engines blast most Air Force communications and navigation satellites into orbit,” points out Pasztor.<br>
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True, the U.S. is racing to develop its own less-costly rocket engines.<br>
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One company doing that is Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX. Just last Thursday SpaceX launched the Air Force’s space shuttle, using an unmanned Falcon rocket and landing its booster back at Cape Canaveral for reuse.<br>
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TELETHON AIDS HURRICANE VICTIMS. A one-hour telethon tomorrow night is aimed at benefiting Hurricane Harvey victims. Among those featured on the program are Barbra Streisand, Beyonce, Blake Shelton and Oprah Winfrey. It will be carried on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and CMT. Will Hurricane Irma be the next benefit?<br>
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L.A. TIMES AGAIN REMINDS READERS OF COMING MEGA-QUAKE. Inspired by Mexico’s Thursday earthquake, the Los Angeles Times over the weekend is back with another periodic reminder to shake up its readers that they are in earthquake territory with: “Scientists say it’s possible for Southern California to be hit by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake. Such a quake would be far more destructive to the Los Angeles area because the San Andreas fault runs very close to and underneath densely populated areas.” The writer mentions “Southern California’s most recent mega-quake was in 1857.”<br>
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EQUIFAX NOW FACES LAWSUIT. The massive cyberattack on Equifax, the credit-report company, already has triggered a class-action lawsuit and calls for congressional investigation. Hackers earlier stole personal information on 143 million Americans.<br>
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NORDSTROM STORE SKIPS CLOTHING. Nordstrom Inc. on Oct. 3 opens a non-traditional 3,000-square-foot store in West Hollywood, Calif. called Nordstrom Local that will focus on services such as manicures and tailoring rather than clothing.<br>
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NORTH KOREA MENTIONS U.S. ELECTRICITY GRID TARGET. Among new threats being made against the U.S. by North Korea: An electromagnetic pulse triggered by a nuclear weapon aimed to shut down the U.S. electricity grid --- with power outages that could last months.<br>
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TOP JOB WITHOUT FOUR-YEAR DEGREE. Among top 10 best jobs for those without a four-year college degree is broadcast technician with an average salary of $42,550, according to CareerCast, Carlsbad, Calif.<br>
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L.A. CITY COUNCIL REPLACES COLUMBUS DAY WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY<br>
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The Los Angeles City Council voted to banish Columbus Day and change the second Monday in October to Indigenous Peoples Day, notes Grumpy Editor.<br>
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Indigenous Peoples Day will be an official city holiday in the City of Angels starting in 2019.<br>
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It should be pointed out that Columbus Day, since the early 20th century, is a national holiday in many countries in the Americas, along with Spain, Italy and “Little Italy’s” around the world.<br>
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The proposal to replace Columbus’ holiday in Los Angeles was introduced in November 2015 by Councilman Mitch O'Farrell, a member of the Wyandotte Nation tribe, because of what he called "Columbus' legacy of extreme violence, enslavement and brutality'' and “the suffering, destruction of cultures, and subjugation of Los Angeles' original indigenous people, who were here thousands of years before anyone else.”<br>
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A Wall Street Journal editorial on Friday cites, “L.A.’s move isn’t about celebrating. It’s about indicting anything that represents Western civilization, as Christopher Columbus most certainly does. So how ironic that in deposing the Italian explorer, Los Angeles City Council members find themselves taking the side of the Ku Klux Klan of the early 20th century --- whose nativism led it to oppose statues, memorials and days devoted to Columbus because<br>
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By the way, the new Indigenous Peoples Day will be a paid holiday for Los Angeles city workers.<br>
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UNUSUAL LIVE --- AND PRINT --- COVERAGE WHEN HURRICANE HARVEY HITS HOUSTON. In covering Houston’s flooded area, Casey Stegall did an outstanding reporting job describing happenings in a live segment for Fox News on Wednesday. Starting on-camera while seated in a moving vehicle, he described the scene along a battered road, then, as the cameraman followed, he left the vehicle and described a pile of trashed furnishings and household items stacked at the curb, awaiting disposal at a landfill, then went into the house to describe the scene and mop-up operations.<br>
On the print side, Clifford Krauss, reporting for New York Times News Service from his two-story home in Bellaire, Texas, wrote an extensive piece on the flood as “the home I saved my entire career to buy is flooding fast…” He described how he and his family had to move to the second floor and “it’s only a matter of time before our piano is ruined.” While writing his story he mentioned, “We just lost our electricity” and the “hardline telephone was out.” He described houses on his street “look like sinking ships” and “it’s going to be a long week.”<br>
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MORE FAKE BANK ACCOUNTS. Wells Fargo says it possibly opened an additional 1.4 million sham customer accounts, upping the revised total to 3.5 million.<br>
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CBS TO BOOST FAR PACIFIC COVERAGE. CBS plans to acquire Australian broadcaster Ten Network Holdings, boosting its coverage from that area.“<br>
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OBESITY CURBS MILITARY SERVICE. A new report notes "70 percent of today's youth are not fit to serve in the military due to obesity or being overweight, criminal records, drug misuse or educational deficits."<br>
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NEW CLOTH WARMS TROOPS IN COLD AREAS. For U.S. military deployed in cold regions, a revolutionary new cloth uses nanotechnology to generate heat, thus reducing weight and number of layers soldiers need to protect themselves from winter conditions.<br>
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BRIEF ADS TO DEBUT ON FOX SPORTS. Fox Sports is planning to run six-second TV commercials in strategic places during NFL games and other sports events starting next Sunday.<br>
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VILLAGE VOICE TRIMS STAFF. The Village Voice, New York, is laying off 13 of 17 union employees.<br>
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California, with taxes on sodas and alcoholic drinks, now seeks to put a tax on (ready for this?) drinking water, notices Grumpy Editor.<br>
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Purpose is to fix hundreds of public water systems with unsafe tap water, writes Katy Murphy in the Long Beach Press-Telegram.<br>
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“Senate Bill 623, backed by a strange-bedfellows coalition of the agricultural lobby and environmental groups but opposed by water districts, would generate $2 billion over the next 15 years to clean up contaminated groundwater and improve faulty water systems and wells, she adds.<br>
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The measure, she mentions, has been moving through the legislature for months, but was amended last Monday “to include the tax on water for both homes and businesses. It also imposes taxes on farms and dairies, roughly $30 million annually, to address some of the contamination caused by fertilizers and other chemicals. Because it includes new taxes, the proposal will need a two-thirds vote in each house to pass, which supporters concede will be a battle.”<br>
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The proposal would generate about $110 million per year through a 95-cent monthly fee on home water bills and taxes on businesses of up to $10 per month. Another $30 million would come from agricultural and dairy operations.<br>
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While 95 cents a month seems like a pittance now, with dollar-hungry Golden State legislators, imagine the fee five years after passage.<br>
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IN CASE YOUR FAVORITE NEWS OUTLETS MISSED THESE…<br>
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MOVIE GOERS STAY HOME. While this month is historically the sleepiest time of the year for the movie business, it's been especially so this year with August activity down 35 percent from last year, according to comScore. Next week is expected to be just as bad: No new wide releases are scheduled for Labor Day weekend.<br>
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STOCK MARKET RALLY FIZZLING? The rally looks like it’s about to peter out, say analysts at banks like HSBC Holdings Plc, Citigroup Inc. and Morgan Stanley, notes Bloomberg, adding, “they’re looking at the relationships between stocks, bonds, and commodities--- and they’re worried people may be ignoring fundamentals.”<br>
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U.S. NAVY IS SHRINKING. Four serious incidents in the western Pacific this year put a spotlight on an overstretched Navy. After the recent collision involving the USS John S. McCain, some experts are speaking out about the increased burden carried by the Navy which had 271 ships in service in 2015, 20 percent fewer than in 1998, yet still kept 100 vessels at sea, according to Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment.<br>
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VETERANS AIDED ON CLAIMS FOR BENEFITS. Under a bill President Trump signed Wednesday, veterans will have more options to appeal denied claims for Department of Veterans Affairs benefits, a process that currently leaves veterans waiting an average of five years.<br>
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WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITOR SCOLDS STAFFERS. Gerard Baker, editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, criticizes his staff over their coverage of President Trump’s Tuesday rally in Phoenix, describing their reporting as overly opinionated. “Sorry. This is commentary dressed up as news reporting," he writes. Then in a follow-up, he declares, "Could we please just stick to reporting what he said rather than packaging it in exegesis and selective criticism?” A spokeswoman later adds, "The Wall Street Journal has a clear separation between news and opinion. As always, the key priority is to focus reporting on facts and avoid opinion seeping into news coverage.”<br>
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TOP BUSINESS NEWS PROGRAM. Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” marked one straight year as the most-watched television program in business news. The program averaged 285,000 total viewers during the week, making it the highest-rated program over other business networks including rival CNBC.<br>
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MADISON AVE. REVENUE AFFECTED. Consumer goods companies, with a shift to digital advertising, are cutting spending on ads, thus cutting Madison Ave. revenue.<br>
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LOS ANGELES TIMES CONTINUES TO SHAKE UP READERS. Headlines on the web one day last week:<br>
Earthquake: 4.1 quake shakes near Ashford Mill<br>
Earthquake: Magnitude 3.0 quake strikes off shore near San Francisco<br>
Earthquake: Magnitude 3.2 quake strikes near Palm Springs<br>
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Rasmussen Reports finds 47 percent of voters feel the media is actively trying to block President Trump from passing his agenda.<br>
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With rally violence in Charlottesville, Va. and many other cities in recent days, apparently no media member has asked about governors sending state National Guard units to quell disturbances in affected areas, notes Grumpy Editor.<br>
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The governor of the state where they serve can activate National Guard members for service upon declaration of an emergency.<br>
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With a shortage of regular Army personnel, many state National Guard units often are sent to far-off Afghanistan. It’s not unusual for members to see multiple tours there.<br>
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The majority of those in the National Guard hold civilian jobs.<br>
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The National Guard is part of the reserve components of the U.S. armed forces.<br>
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One person who did ask about using the National Guard in recent disturbances is Mark Levin, who hosts a national radio show.<br>
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Whole National Guard divisions have gone into battle, as occurred during the Korean War when Oklahoma and California National Guard divisions were sent overseas.<br>
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Meanwhile, media have not been inquisitive in the downing of two Virginia state troopers who were in a helicopter monitoring the<br>
Charlottesville demonstrations. There was no distress call before the copter suddenly descended into trees and burst into flames, killing the two on board: pilots Lt. H. Jay Cullen and Berke M.M. Bates.<br>
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However, heavily covered by media in the Charlottesville rally, was the death of Heather D. Heyer.<br>
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ANOTHER U.S. DESTROYER INCIDENT. A U.S. destroyer --- the second in two months --- collided yesterday with a merchant ship in the Far East, resulting in 10 sailors missing and five injured. It involved the USS John McCain and the Alnic MC, described as a 600-foot oil and chemical tanker with a gross tonnage of 30,000. On June 17 the destroyer USS Fitzgerald collided with a freighter off Japan's coast.<br>
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WHAT’S NEXT AFTER TODAY’S SOLAR ECLIPSE? Most media have been so excited over today’s outer space event that they have overlooked what’s coming late next week. That’s when a 2.7-mile-wide asteroid has a "relatively close encounter" with Earth on Sept. 1, say NASA officials. The asteroid, named Florence, will be the largest to pass relatively close to Earth since NASA began keeping track of near-Earth objects. Its trajectory will place it 4.4 million miles from the planet, roughly 18 times the distance between Earth and the moon.<br>
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SUNKEN WORLD WAR II U.S. CRUISER FOUND. Locating the sunken USS Indianapolis wreckage on Saturday did not get much attention from media over the weekend. The World War II cruiser was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine 72 years ago. The ship was located about three and a half miles below the surface of the Philippine Sea.<br>
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BRIUGHT AUTUMN SEEN FOR NEW ENGLAND. Whether you believe in climate change or not, New England’s fall foliage forecast indicates a glorious autumn, following a mild summer and fading drought. Yankee Magazine predicts a “strong and vibrant” display.<br>
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FAR OUT. Following anti-Confederate action in other cities around the country, New York City transit officials decided to modify subway station tiles that show a cross-like design similar to the Confederate flag.<br>
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TOP 10 LIVABLE CITIES. Melbourne, Australia comes out as the world’s most livable city, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the research and analysis division of The Economist Group. The city received a score of 97.5 out of 100 on the annual list that assesses stability, health care, culture and environment, education and infrastructure in 140 different cities. No U.S. city made the top 10 list:<br>
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1. Melbourne, Australia<br>
2. Vienna, Austria<br>
3. Vancouver, Canada<br>
4. Toronto, Canada<br>
5. (tie) Calgary, Canada<br>
5. (tie) Adelaide, Australia<br>
7. Perth, Australia<br>
8. Auckland, New Zealand<br>
9. Helsinki, Finland<br>
10. Hamburg, Germany<br>
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Give your canine a special treat on NATIONAL DOG DAY, Aug. 26.<br>
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LOOK FOR SOLAR ECLIPSE TO ECLIPSE OTHER NEWS<br>
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Next Monday’s solar eclipse, crossing the U.S. as a total eclipse on a strip through 14 states from Oregon to South Carolina, is grabbing more space and broadcast time than world developments, notes Grumpy Editor.<br>
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It will mark the first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse since 1918.<br>
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Areas along the 60 to 70-mile swath, known as “the path of totality” will see periods of total darkness for up to two minutes and 40 seconds (at Hokinsville, Kentucky).<br>
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The eclipse will zoom across the U.S. in 90 minutes.<br>
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Look for every U.S. newspaper front page on Aug. 22 to show at least one photo of how the eclipse looked in its circulation area.<br>
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Some communities are holding eclipse watches, expected to attract thousands of lookers.<br>
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IN CASE YOUR FAVORITE NEWS OUTLETS MISSED THESE…<br>
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SO WHERE IS NORTH KOREA? Apparently some Americans missed their geography classes. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel asks people on Hollywood Blvd. in Los Angeles to pinpoint North Korea on a map. No one gets it right, pointing to areas such as Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Eastern Russia, South America and Canada.<br>
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CHANGING WEATHER. First it was global warming, then climate change, and now “weather extremes?” The Guardian, London, reports “Staff at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been told to avoid using the term climate change in their work, with the officials instructed to reference “weather extremes” instead.<br>
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PETS ADD TO GLOBAL WARMING. Your dog or cat may be contributing to global warming. In his paper published earlier this month, UCLA professor Gregory S. Okin finds that meat-eating dogs and cats create the equivalent of 64 million tons of carbon dioxide per year based on the energy consumption required to produce their food, or the same impact as driving 13.6 million cars. “Pets have many benefits but also a huge environmental impact,” says Okin.<br>
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WOMEN INTO COMBAT TRAINING. The U.S. Marine Corps is considering a plan to let women attend what has been male-only combat training. If approved, it could start as soon as next spring.<br>
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TRUMP’S JOB RATING UP. Latest Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll (Friday) shows 45 percent of likely U.S. voters approve of President Trump’s job performance, up from 39 percent a week prior.<br>
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VETERANS STORIES SOUGHT. The National Museum of the U. S. Army at Fort Belvoir, Va., seeks Army veterans to submit stories of their experience in the military for presentation at the new facility.<br>
NEW LOOK AHEAD. Chuck E. Cheese, the iconic childhood birthday party destination, is getting an interior makeover at its outlets, going for more muted tones, sleeker furniture and brighter lighting in an attempt to improve the experience for --- adults.<br>
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N. Y. EDITORS GET EXCITED. How important is this story from Nevada for readers of the Daily News in far-off New York? (Apparently Daily News editors get excited when they see words “naked” and “suicidal” together.) Las Vegas police confirm identity of officer who shot naked suicidal man.<br>
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CHELSEA MAKES VOGUE. Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst who served time in military prison for leaking classified documents, will be featured in Vogue magazine’s September issue. Convicted in 2013 for leaking reams of material to WikiLeaks, she was sentenced to 35 years in prison but was released in May after former president Obama commuted her sentence days before he left office.<br>
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More jobs fuel economy, powering Dow to new highs<br>
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Dow Jones Industrial Average starts today at 22092, while most mainstream media did not make much noise when the 121-year-old Dow passed the 22000 mark on Wednesday, notes Grumpy Editor.<br>
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That’s a whopping jump from last November’s election day, as President Donald Trump reminded with a tweet that mentioned, “Was 18000 only 6 months ago on Election Day. Mainstream media seldom mentions!”<br>
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During his campaign for the White House --- and beyond --- Trump has been pushing pro-growth policies.<br>
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The fast-paced ascension of the Dow reached 20000 on Jan. 25 this year, 21000 on March 1 on its way to 22000 last week.<br>
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The economy was fueled further last month with U.S. employers adding 209,000 jobs while the unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent.<br>
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What the mainstream media did focus on, however, was Trump’s presidential job approval rating: 38 percent as the weekly average.<br>
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True China cooperation after decades siding with North Korea? News stories report a global pressure campaign on North Korea, propelled by new U.N. sanctions, results in Beijing calling on its neighbor to halt its missile and nuclear tests.<br>
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Pet alligators drinking beer and smoking cigarettes? No kidding, that’s what the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is investigating after viewing a video. The group is trying to determine who made the video and whether it can lead to prosecution for cruelty to animals.<br>
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Baseball pitcher Yu Darvish, traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers from the Texas Rangers last week, took out a full-page ad in the Dallas Morning News to thank Rangers fans, despite not always being appreciated during his time in Texas, "Thank you very much for the past 5.5 years since 2012," the ad states. "Coming from Japan, I could not have adjusted to the new environment if it weren't for all the courteous fans, teammates, team staff and all affiliates who supported me."<br>
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President Donald Trump is not changing his Twitter habit, saying in a tweet: “Only the Fake News Media and Trump enemies want me to stop using Social Media (110 million people). Only way for me to get the truth out!”<br>
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Not everyone is banned on travel to North Korea. The State Department says U.S. journalists, Red Cross employees and other humanitarian workers can apply for exemptions on travel to that country.<br>
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The next Air Force One --- actually two 747 jumbo jets from Boeing Co. --- are being converted after being ordered by a Russian airline that collapsed two years ago.<br>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Forbes lists steps to squash North Korea’s antics<br/>
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With the firing of another, more advanced, North Korea ballistic missile on Friday, what’s taking it so long to crack down on the Communist nation that has been a thorn in the U.S. side for decades, asks Grumpy Editor.<br/>
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With the latest test, experts said North Korea now placed the continental U.S. firmly in range of a strike.<br/>
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That should stir up Washington.<br/>
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But it’s vacation time.<br/>
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North Korea has been acting up for years, since the three-year Korean War shooting stopped with truce talks --- still open ended --- that started July 27, 1953.<br/>
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Thus, the so-called “forgotten war,” in which 33,739 U.S. military personnel lost lives and 103,284 were wounded in action, has not officially concluded.<br/>
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Under a headline,“Crackdown on North Korea unavoidable now,” Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, Forbes magazine, in the current (July 27) issue listed “several steps the U.S. should take immediately, which would start to inflict serious economic pain on Pyongyang and put pressure on China to make good on its pledges.”<br/>
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Topping the list was one suggestion that was just nailed down on July 21 when the Trump administration said it would bar Americans from traveling to North Korea.<br/>
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Other steps mentioned by Forbes:<br/>
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* Put North Korea back on the U.S. list of terrorist states.<br/>
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* Start applying serious sanctions on all banks and companies that do business with North Korea.<br/>
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* Announce that the U.S. Navy would be free to interdict ships suspected of transporting North Korean military products, including nuclear parts, or of transporting military items or nuclear parts to Pyongyang.<br/>
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* Step up our antiballistic missile efforts, with the stated goal of shooting down any future missiles fired by North Korea.<br/>
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Admiral Paul F. Zukunft, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, says the Coast Guard is busier than ever chasing drug runners, but that it can&#39;t do the job without more money, pointing out last year the Coast Guard couldn&#39;t chase hundreds of drug shipments it knew about. Much of the fleet is decades past retirement age and the Coast Guard needs $1.5 billion just to catch up on maintenance.<br/>
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Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker reminds his staff: “In a turbulent political age, there’s been much public discussion about trust in the media. You’ve heard me talk a lot about trust and our overriding obligation to be fair and objective as we cover politics --- and indeed all subjects. When relations between government and the media are especially strained, it’s more important than ever that we maintain our composure and our commitment to reporting the truth, without political or ideological slant.”<br/>
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In the latest New York Times buyout program, some key editorial staffers will be exiting. Among them: Michael Gordon, national security correspondent. He will depart in September after three decades at the paper. Also reported to be leaving are book critic Michiko Kakutani, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter James Risen, media editor Bruce Headlam and columnist Charles Duhigg, another Pulitzer winner. With the buyout program more than 100 copy editors will see their jobs eliminated.<br/>
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Fox News Channel spent more than $100,000 for a New York Times ad to spotlight a recent Times review proclaiming the &quot;Fox & Friends&quot; morning show is &quot;the most powerful TV show in America.&quot;<br/>
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David Perlman, 98-year-old science editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, is retiring after nearly seven decades at the newspaper. Asked what he thought of many newspapers eliminating science editors to save money, Perlman says, “I think it&#39;s absolutely obscene.”<br/>
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A Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds 50 percent of likely U.S. Voters believe the media have too much power and influence over government decisions.<br/>
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U.K. paper: North Korea eyes subs for missile launching<br>
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Grumpy Editor notes that following North Korea's recent test of an intercontinental ballistic missile with technology for mounting a nuclear warhead, Gen. Paul Selva, vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that North Korea does not have "the capacity to strike the United States with any degree of accuracy or reasonable confidence of success."<br>
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Yet, at the same time, London-based The Sun newspaper reported North Korean SINPO-class submarines --- designed to launch ballistic missiles --- have been spotted in international waters engaging in "unusual activity."<br>
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The story said North Korean watchers, via satellite images, spotted changes on the boat and its home dock and "believe satellite images indicate preparations for a major operation."<br>
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The Sun pointed out, “While the precise reason for this movement is unclear, one possibility is that it may have been long-term preparations for the recently reported voyage or an upcoming missile test."<br>
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Other images show "huge development" at a shipyard where North Korean submarines are based.<br>
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The Sun explained, "Long-range ballistic missiles (ISBMs), and their submarine-housed counterparts (SLBMs), are rockets which can carry nuclear bombs and would be capable of striking the U.S.West Coast, including cities such as Los Angeles and Seattle.<br>
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Another Trump-Russian breaking news revelation stemming from the G-20 dinner in Germany. Grumpy Editor gets a hearty laugh seeing Gary Varvel’s editorial cartoon for the Indianapolis Star in which a TV news reader reveals: “Trump had Russian salad dressing.”<br>
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Indeed, Washington media get excited in uncovering "President Donald Trump had another previously undisclosed conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Germany." (This was at the dinner for world leaders in Hamburg.)<br>
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Summer doldrums hit the Washington Post newsroom. It grabs an exclusive with the revelation that President Donald Trump "can usually make it about a third of the way through an interview without mentioning Hillary Clinton." In a lengthy story, complete with charts, writer Philip Bump uncovers, "In fact, in 19 interviews that he’s conducted since becoming president, we found that Clinton tended to be mentioned much earlier than a number of Trump’s other favorite topics."<br>
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Bloomberg reports Lloyd’s of London warns a global cyber-attack could result in up to $121.4 billion in damages. Meanwhile, Bloomberg and El Financiero launch Bloomberg Businessweek México, a Spanish-language, bi-weekly edition. The magazine will include local content from Mexico-based Bloomberg News and El Financiero journalists.<br>
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Four members of a television reality show film are robbed at gunpoint in a parking lot in downtown Oakland with $50,000 worth of equipment and personal items grabbed, according to victims and authorities. The head of the crew says he was thrown up against a wall and that he and the other victims were forced to lie on the pavement, where two robbers put guns to their heads and threatened them.<br>
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British Broadcasting Corp. reports officials in India say food served on board Indian trains and at railway stations is unfit for human consumption. Checking 80 trains and 74 stations finds some food contaminated while packaged and bottled items are past expiration dates. As a result, the railway ministry says a new catering policy would lead to quality food for rail passengers while promising new kitchens and upgrades to existing ones.<br>
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CNSnews.com notes TV networks spend 55 percent of their time covering Russia-Trump yet only 6 percent of Americans say it's a "top issue."<br>
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It happens in Britain, too. A five-year-old girl in London is left in tears after local council officers fined her 150 pounds ($195) for selling lemonade without a license near her home. The homemade lemonade was designated for fans attending a nearby dance festival.<br>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Is the Los Angeles Times getting ready to move?<br/>
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Will the Los Angeles Times move from its historic location in downtown Los Angeles where it has been based since 1935? asks Grumpy Editor.<br/>
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LAObserved last week mentions, “The Los Angeles Times has a deal to leave its art deco home (since 1935) at 1st and Spring streets in Civic Center and move across downtown to the 62-story Aon Center.”<br/>
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But a few days later the weekly Los Angeles Business Journal reports “The Los Angeles Times has no immediate plans to relocate operations after its historic downtown headquarters was sold nine months ago…”<br/>
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The Business Journal quotes the Times communications director saying, “We have not signed a new lease. We are currently researching our options for the future, which include remaining in the building or selecting a new location.”<br/>
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The current site is conveniently across from City Hall and close to courts and police department headquarters, making it easy for reporters to cover.<br/>
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The current lease at the Times building runs until June, 2018 &quot;with options to continue beyond that date,&quot; points out its PR person.<br/>
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The Times is a renter in the former corporate home of the Chandler family media empire and is increasingly a smaller presence in what used to be called Times Mirror Square.<br/>
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The editorial staff now fits on only two floors.<br/>
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In a Friday conference call, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon expressed frustration with the federal government, declaring: &quot;Since the Great Recession, which is now eight years old, we&#39;ve been growing at 1.5 to 2 percent in spite of stupidity and political gridlock, because the American business sector is powerful and strong, What I&#39;m saying is it would be much stronger growth had we made intelligent decisions and were there not gridlock.&quot; That triggers The Wall Street Journal to comment: “Jamie Dimon sure knows how to liven up an earnings call.”<br/>
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Projections indicate Social Security recipients in January can expect to receive their biggest payment increase in years: 2.2 percent, or about $28 a month for the average recipient. That compares with tiny increases in benefits in recent years. For this year recipients received an increase of 0.3 percent, after getting nothing last year.<br/>
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A new island popped up off North Carolina’s Outer Banks. It’s a mile-long, crescent-shaped sand bar. Locals named it “Shelly Island” stemming from its abundant shells.<br/>
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Will other airlines follow? Air India introduces a cost-cutting measure: Meatless meals for those in economy class on domestic flights &quot;to reduce wastage, reduce cost and improve catering service.&quot;<br/>
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Five Okinawa-based U.S. Marines, making their way down Mount Fuji, Japan’s tallest peak 60 miles outside Tokyo, ran across a medical emergency when a 28-year-old Japanese woman was shaking violently on the ground, suffering from a seizure. Stars & Stripes reports the Marines did not hesitate and “immediately sprang into action. They stripped off their shirts, and using their walking sticks, fashioned a makeshift stretcher,” adding “They carried the woman down Fuji’s winding trails until they reached medics, potentially saving the young woman’s life.”<br/>
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Nancy Pelosi still thinks George W. Bush is president. During an interview with Oakland’s KTVU, the House minority leader for the fifth time in recent weeks referred to President Donald Trump as “President Bush,” points out The American Mirror.<br/>
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Does this excite Washington? North Korea warns it will “turn self-destructive U.S. into a pile of ash” if President Donald Trump orders attack on its nuclear sites, reports The Sun, London.<br/>
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How much does CNN like the White House? The channel last Wednesday airs a prime time special: “White House in Crisis.”<br/>
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CBS and Britain’s BBC enter a partnership to share video and other newsgathering resources to boost worldwide reporting capabilities.<br/>
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Another example of the closeness between North Korea and China: China buys iron ore from North Korea.<br/>
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/HalMorris/grumpy_editor/~4/0cUTZ9kEsHM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://grumpyeditor.typepad.com/grumpy_editor/2017/07/is-the-los-angeles-times-getting-ready-to-move-will-the-los-angeles-times-move-from-its-historic-location-in-downtown-los-a.htmltag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c86cf53ef01bb09ad8858970d2017-07-10T06:19:09-07:002017-07-10T06:19:09-07:00Washington slow to recognize antics of North Korea North Korea’s test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile, that experts say could reach Alaska, put the communist nation back into the spotlight and front pages, notes Grumpy Editor. So now much...Grumpy Editor<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Washington slow to recognize antics of North Korea<br>
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North Korea’s test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile, that experts say could reach Alaska, put the communist nation back into the spotlight and front pages, notes Grumpy Editor.<br>
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So now much media chatter is all about North Korea.<br>
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But today, Grumpy Editor goes back six years and repeats a Feb. 27, 2011 posting under the headline --- Almost forgotten: Korean War remains open-ended --- that illustrates Washington’s slow movement to recognize a long-running international problem.<br>
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In that 2011 material, Grumpy Editor points out the close ties North Korea had during the Korean War with the Chinese and Russians, namely Chinese soldiers battling U.S. troops on the ground while Russian pilots in Soviet-built jets were fighting U.S. pilots in the air.<br>
The closeness of North Korea, China and Russia continues today. Thus, it is a key reason China and Russia will likely provide no solid help in curbing the current doings of North Korea.<br>
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They have been buddies for years.<br>
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From the Feb. 27, 2011 Grumpy Editor:<br>
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News junkies, including journalists, are aware that the U.S. currently is involved in three military actions --- in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya --- but most overlook a fourth, rather silent, that remains open-ended after 58 (now 64) years, reminds Grumpy Editor.<br>
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That’s the Korean War. Battles ended with a cease fire on July 27, 1953.<br>
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So it’s interesting to note that North Korea this week, on the 58th anniversary of the truce, is "eager" to sign a peace treaty that puts the cap on the 1950-1953 conflict that, for the U.S., resulted in 36,940 military deaths, 103,000 wounded, 8,142 missing in action and 3,746 prisoners of war.<br>
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The Korean War, also labeled the “forgotten war,” erupted when 135,000 communist North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea in pre-dawn hours of June 25, 1950.<br>
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The conflict was extended with the entries of communist Chinese soldiers battling U.S. troops on the ground and Russian pilots in Soviet-built jets fighting U.S. airmen.<br>
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Chinese troops killed or captured thousands of U.S. military personnel and managed many prisoner of war camps in North Korea.<br>
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North and South Korea technically remain at war with no peace treaty.<br>
In addition, talks are expected to focus on a resumption of six-nation (China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, North Korea, U.S.) nuclear disarmament talks, something that has been going on for years.<br>
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Don’t count on progress.<br>
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Over the years, North Korea’s routine has been to talk, followed by pauses, then more talks, followed by no final action.<br>
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CNN and the New York Times continue to stir up Russia-Trump (routine) meetings…this latest one about adopting Russian kids.<br>
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From CNN: “Donald Trump's oldest son has told CNN that he, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort met with a Russian lawyer last year --- the first known meeting between some of the highest members of the Trump team and a Russian national during the campaign. The New York Times, which first reported the previously undisclosed meeting, says it occurred at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016 --- two weeks after Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination.<br>
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"It was a short introductory meeting," Donald Trump Jr. said in a statement to CNN. "I asked Jared and Paul to stop by. We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government.”<br>
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Will the meeting in Russia of President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump put a cap on the long-running word “meddling” in print and broadcast media? Probably not.<br>
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Look for a fight in Congress in coming months over how many troops should be added in the Army next year. The House Armed Services Committee approved a $625 billion version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2018. It calls for adding 17,000 soldiers. Meanwhile, the Senate Armed Services Committee’s $640 billion version puts the figure at 6,000 more soldiers.<br>
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While parts of Nevada and Arizona are baking under a hot sun, thousands of snowboarders and skiers have been taking advantage of lingering snow in Squaw Valley in California, as slopes remain open, stemming from a huge snowfall this year.<br>
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Forget climate change. The New York Times raises a new concern via a story with a Cape Grim, Tasmania dateline: “excess carbon dioxide scorching the planet.”<br>
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English-language weekly Moscow Times, with a circulation of 55,000, ends its print edition with a July 6 souvenir issue.<br>
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Fortune magazine reports the top five companies that care most about customers are Disney, Amazon, UPS, FedEx and Cosco, while companies that care least about customers are Wells Fargo, Comcast, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and JP Morgan Chase.<br>
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Carmaker Volvo, now owned by China's Geely, reveals it will abandon the conventional combustion engine by 2019, then sell cars powered only by hybrid or fully electric motors.<br>
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The edible SPAM, not the computer kind, celebrates<br>
80 years in pantries around the world.<br>
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/HalMorris/grumpy_editor/~4/ynCCLHr0W8s" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://grumpyeditor.typepad.com/grumpy_editor/2017/07/washington-slow-to-recognize-antics-of-north-korea-north-koreas-test-firing-of-an-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-tha.htmltag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c86cf53ef01b7c908471b970b2017-07-03T05:36:50-07:002017-07-03T05:36:50-07:00Sony plans to resume production of vinyl records It didn’t get much media coverage, but record collectors will be happy to learn that Sony Music Entertainment plans to start pressing vinyl records again before next spring, notes Grumpy Editor. Sony,...Grumpy Editor<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><br>
Sony plans to resume production of vinyl records<br>
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It didn’t get much media coverage, but record collectors will be happy to learn that Sony Music Entertainment plans to start pressing vinyl records again before next spring, notes Grumpy Editor.<br>
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Sony, the world’s second largest record company and owner of RCA and Columbia labels, halted vinyl record production in 1989 as compact discs took over the market.<br>
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Behind the comeback: Young music lovers claim vinyl produces a warmer, more vivid sound.<br>
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Plans call for Sony to produce vinyl records at a factory near Tokyo.<br>
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Look for turntables and other vinyl-related accessories to gain fresh attention.<br>
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Vinyl revenue reached its peak in the late 70s and early 80s, when more than half a billion records were sold annually in the U.S. alone.<br>
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The New York Times idea of restructuring the newsroom operation and eliminating a stand-alone copy desk (with more than 100 copy editors) outraged employees who staged a march around the Times building. Current copy editors are invited to apply for about 50 other positions.<br>
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Political correctness reaches into California’s Disneyland where the park area spotlighting the swashbuckling tradition of abducting and exploiting women in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction is undergoing a makeover.<br>
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Heavy coverage of Greta Van Susteren’s sudden departure from MSNBC after being with the cable network for less than six months never got around to indicating the reason why.<br>
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Strangely, on and on goes the case of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl who is facing the charge of endangering Army buddies by walking off his post (as a private) in Afghanistan --- eight years ago. That’s two times the length of World War II.<br>
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Unlike when California faced drought conditions, not much was reported last week when central California homes received water damage from swollen rivers triggered by melting snow.<br>
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The Labor Department reports Americans spend more time working and less time sleeping, based on a 2016 survey.<br>
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Late night talk show (Coast to Coast AM) host George Noory’s latest book, Mad as Hell, reveals his concerns about the state of America and his worries about its future, declaring: “We live in a dangerous world that is sorely in need of an effective political system. I hope this book will inspire and encourage people to pull together as a society and put in the hard work it will take to bring back the America that makes us proud.”<br>
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Jakarta, Indonesia TV stations provided live coverage on the arrival of former President Barack Obama and his family on the last leg of a 10-day vacation in Indonesia, where they visited ancient temples and went whitewater rafting. Jakarta is Obama’s boyhood home.<br>
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When driver Andy Mitchell spotted a young man in a fast food uniform walking along a road on a 95-degree day in Rockwall, Texas, he felt compelled to offer 20-year-old Justin Korva a ride. Mitchell learned that Korva normally walked three miles to work and home every day. This led to a donation box in town and in 48 hours $5,500 was raised, leading to purchase of a car for Korva through a local dealer.<br>
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Main reason Congress is not getting much done: Members will have 218 days off this year.<br>
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AP cautious with strong wind, calling it ‘suspected’ tornado<br>
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Interesting that an Associated Press story in newspapers on Friday referred to a monster wind that battered west Jefferson County, Ala, as “a suspected tornado near Birmingham” that flattened businesses and injured one person, notes Grumpy Editor.<br>
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Suspected?<br>
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Do we also have “suspected” thunderstorms or “suspected” snowstorms?<br>
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Why such caution by AP when writer Kevin McGill mentions the Weather Service “issued tornado warnings earlier for the Birmingham and Tuscaloosa areas?”<br>
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The easy, non-technical description of a tornado: a violent destructive whirling wind accompanied by a funnel-shaped cloud that progresses in a narrow path over the land.<br>
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And that’s what occurred.<br>
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The tornado was caused by remnants of tropical storm Cindy.<br>
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With Russia (one of the favorite words in Washington in recent weeks), Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. reminds that “in 2009 President Obama made the first of his two trips to Russia with a gaggle of U.S. business leaders in tow. Of these many thousands, four were associated with the Trump campaign, and now became evidence of Trump collusion with Russia.”<br>
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In connection with the collision between the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald and a large container ship off the coast of Japan, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, and Japanese naval and maritime authorities are all conducting investigations. An early assessment suggests the container ship might have been on some type of autopilot system at the time of the collision. But the big mystery is how and why the crew of the Fitzgerald did not see the other ship coming, or why they were unable to maneuver away from it. It will be months before official word is announced.<br>
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Eric Bolling, co-host of “The Fox News Specialists,” is considering a run for the U.S. Senate to challenge a southern Republican senator. New York-based Bolling doesn’t indicate when or which state he would consider launching a Senate run.<br>
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Look for a crescendo of news coverage in coming days regarding a total eclipse on Aug. 21. It will mark the first total solar eclipse to cross the continental United States since 1918, darkening skies from Oregon to South Carolina.<br>
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So how hot was in Phoenix last week? Nearly 50 flights out of the city were cancelled on extremely hot-day Tuesday as scorching temperatures hit the Southwest.<br>
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Bankrate.com survey finds young boomers --- ages 53 to 62 --- fared the worst of various groups saying they had zero dollars saved in an emergency fund. That compares with 24 percent of all others, ages 18 or older.<br>
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A New Zealand newspaper --- Mountain Scene in Queenstown --- seeks to shame drunks by putting their names, ages and alcohol readings on the front page.<br>
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While a television news crew for KOB in Albuquerque was gathering footage for a story about crime in the downtown area, a thief drove off in the station's SUV.<br>
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Missing 7 days, ‘dead’ sailor turns up alive<br>
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One of the strangest maritime stories was solved over the weekend when a U.S. Navy sailor, presumed dead after being missing for seven days, was found alive on his ship, notes Grumpy Editor.<br>
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A far-reaching search was conducted during the week in efforts to find Petty Officer Peter Mims, a gas turbine systems technician on the USS Shiloh, a guided missile cruiser.<br>
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The Shiloh, with a crew of more than 300, was conducting routine operations 180 miles east of Okinawa,<br>
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Rescue teams from the U.S. Navy, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and Japan's Coast Guard scoured 5,500 miles of the Philippine Sea over a span of 50 hours searching for Mims.<br>
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Also in the search were helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft from USS Shiloh, USS McCampbell and USS Ronald Reagan, plus a P-8 maritime patrol aircraft.<br>
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Then Mims was found in engineering spaces in his 567-foot long ship.<br>
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Circumstances surrounding Mims' disappearance are under investigation.<br>
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The Los Angeles Times runs the latest in its periodic “big one coming” earthquake series (to shake up its readers) with a focus on “what happens at the San Gorgonio Pass during a major rupture of the San Andreas fault could have wide-ranging implications for the region and beyond.” Writer Rong-Gong Lin II warns, experts “worry a huge quake could sever lifelines at the pass for weeks or months, cutting Southern California off from major highway and rail routes as well as sources of power, oil and gas.” (What was left out of the story: That also means very late deliveries of The Times)…Rasmussen Reports daily presidential tracking poll shows 50 percent of likely U.S. voters approve of President Trump’s job performance while a like amount disapprove. It is the first time Trump’s approval rating has hit the 50 percent mark since late April...Show biz publication The Hollywood Reporter adds a staffer to cover real estate in an area with many luxury properties…The Washington Post says page views in May exceeded one billion, marking a 33 percent gain from a year prior…Netflix claims it has more U.S. streaming subscribers (50.85 million) than the number of customers for the country's largest cable companies (48.61 million)…Nike Inc., the world’s largest maker of sports shoes and apparel, will cut about 1,400 jobs, or two percent of its worldwide workers…Also in a staff-cutting mode, Time Inc. reveals it will be laying off as many as 300 across the company to cut costs. The latest round of layoffs represents about four percent of the company’s total workforce…The weekly Las Vegas Business Press stops publishing a print version, but continues as an online publication. In print for 34 years, it is part of the Las Vegas Review-Journal family.<br>
Bloomberg Businessweek’s current issue comes up with a new look that includes “cleaner and more consistent design,” boasts editor Megan Murphy. But it’s not “very bold,” notes Grumpy Editor, as many pages --- especially those with long stories --- lack bold face in text and subheads. Thus most pages are very gray and not attractive to readers’ eyes.<br>
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While mainstream media continues to focus on Russia even after confirmation that there was no collusion with that country, being ignored is the North Korea goal of turning the U.S. dark via hitting the electric power grid, notes Grumpy Editor.<br>
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Test firing of missiles from North Korea in recent weeks doesn’t seem to get U.S. media excited.<br>
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On Friday it was revealed that North Korea’s weapons program now includes a new type of cruise missile capable of striking U.S. and South Korean warships. The missiles are the fourth new system North Korea has tested this year.<br>
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At Friday’s White House press conference in the Rose Garden with Romanian president Klaus Iohannis, President Donald Trump mentioned North Korea “is a big problem.”<br>
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But then the questions from media returned to Russia and former FBI director James Comey.<br>
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Few are aware that two North Korean satellites are orbiting earth on trajectories that take them directly over the U.S.<br>
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As Henry F. Cooper points out in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, “North Korea’s desire to provoke a nuclear conflict with the U.S. should not be minimized or ignored.”<br>
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A nuclear bomb detonated in the atmosphere could inflict catastrophic damage to the electric power grid, mentions Cooper, former ambassador to the Defense and Space Talks during the Reagan administration and director of the Strategic Defense Initiative during the George H. W. Bush administration.<br>
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A missile doesn’t have to be fired from North Korea. It can be launched from a freighter, a submarine, a balloon or even via a North Korean satellite, he points out.<br>
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Boeing Co. is looking ahead to when jetliners fly without pilots, aiming to test some technology next year. Jetliners can already take off, cruise and land using onboard computers while the number of pilots on a standard passenger plane has dropped to two from three over the years…Ford offers buyouts to 15,000 salaried workers in North America and Asia…Shares of Nordstrom jumps more than 10 percent on Thursday after the luxury department store operator says it's pursuing a potential sale that would take the company private…Scandal-ridden Wells Fargo drops to dead-last ranking (to 100 from 60th) of the list of "Most Respected American Companies" by Barron's The bank’s reputation was battered after it acknowledged its employees opened up to 2 million customer accounts without permission in efforts to meet sales goals…Hearst acquires the New Haven Register and two other newspapers from Digital First Media, adding the acquisitions reach more than 470,000 households combined and 1.4 million online visitors…Pete Weitzner, a professor at Chapman University (Orange County, Calif.) and director of its broadcast journalism program, is named editor of the Orange County Business Journal. He will continue to teach a course at Chapman…A student in the San Francisco Bay area was not allowed to wear his Army uniform at graduation rather than the usual graduation robe. PFC Harland J. Fletcher, a student at Liberty Union High School in Brentwood, enlisted on his 17th birthday, went through basic combat training and is an Amy Reserve medic.<br>
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Britain’s Daily Mail on Saturday reports former FBI director James Comey is set for a $10 million book deal.<br>
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/HalMorris/grumpy_editor/~4/4KCXLJ1n9JI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://grumpyeditor.typepad.com/grumpy_editor/2017/06/great-chaos-seen-if-north-korea-missile-smacks-us-while-mainstream-media-continues-to-focus-on-russia-even-after-confirmat.htmlMedia focus on ‘Russia’ as other events overlookedtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c86cf53ef01b7c8fee318970b2017-06-05T05:56:00-07:002017-06-05T07:21:02-07:00Russia. Russia. Russia. That seems to be the monotonous key word heard in most broadcast stories relating to President Donald Trump. Grumpy Editor<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Russia. Russia. Russia.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">That seems to be the monotonous key word heard in most broadcast stories relating to President Donald Trump, especially with almost wall-to-wall coverage on <em>MSNBC</em> and <em>CNN</em>, notes <strong>Grumpy Editor.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Now, seven months after the election, Russia continues to grab air time and print space with mainstream media.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">That includes consistent mentions of meeting with a Russian banker and a Russian ambassador --- before Trump entered the White House.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Imagine, meeting with a banker and an ambassador.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Now think about that.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">As Kimberley A. Strassel points out in her Friday column in the <em>Wall Street Journal: </em>“The country is no better informed about exactly how Russia interfered in the election than it was in October, when intelligence agencies issued a statement expressing their belief that Moscow had helped hack emails. Not a single useful fact has since been added, nor a single investigation completed, not a single official report produced. Until those inquiries are completed, we will have no new real facts. Yet every day a new Russia story.”</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">With the heavy focus on Russia, newsworthy stories from around the U.S. and elsewhere are being sidetracked.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">While Russia is on the minds of most media, what is being overlooked by most editors is the potential threat of North Korea and its loony leader Kim Jong-un with efforts of sending a missile toward the U.S.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Saturday warns that North Korea is a “clear and present danger.”</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Through the weekend, Russia chatter abated somewhat with a new (yet old) subject grabbing attention: climate change.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Meanwhile, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell says a MRC campaign will focus on informing the public and corporate advertisers about leftist shows and on-air personalities who use their programs to spread vicious lies and hate.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">“We are putting the radical left on notice that we are on to them. We know the inside-outside game that radical organizations are playing with their leftist allies in the ‘news’ media,” adds Bozell.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">“Every network and cable news channel is today on notice that the MRC will be closely monitoring their leftist opinion programs and informing their advertisers and the American public when these programs and hosts go beyond political commentary and engage in smear, hate and political extremism,” continues Bozell.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><em>IN CASE YOUR FAVORITE NEWS OUTLETS MISSED THESE</em></strong>…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Despite mainstream media attempts to inject negative news, <strong>the U.S. economy last month added 138,000 jobs and on Friday U.S. equities rose to record levels</strong> as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq all soared to new highs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Interesting to observe <strong>contrasting headlines from the <em>Washington</em> <em>Post</em> and <em>New York Times</em>.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">From the <em>Post</em>: <strong>U.S. jobs market stumbles in May, adding just 138,000 jobs.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">From the <em>Times</em>: <strong>Unemployment at 16-year low as U.S. adds 138,000 jobs.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Meanwhile, newspaper circulation and advertising revenue ebb. <strong>Estimated total daily newspaper circulation (print and digital combined) at 34.6 million for weekday and 38 million for Sunday, represents an 8 percent drop from 2015.</strong> Weekday print circulation sinks 10 percent while Sunday decreases 9 percent. <strong>Estimated newspaper industry advertising revenue for 2016 was $18 billion, 10 percent below the 2015 level.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><em>The New York Times</em> offers buyouts aimed at cutting the number of editors</strong> in the newsroom. Along with that,<strong> <em>The Times</em> is eliminating the position of public editor</strong>, an accountability role the paper created in 2003…In a Donald Trump tweet, <strong>“covfefe” is labeled “a mysterious term” by media</strong> and gets much air time and print space over the past several days. Example from one news agency: “The White House is keeping the U.S. and the world guessing about the meaning --- if there is any.”…City officials in Gardendale --- a town near Birmingham, Ala. --- say <strong>teenagers wishing to mow lawns for extra summer cash will have to show a city-issued license (cost: $110)</strong> before cutting grass…<strong>Berkeley, Calif. continues its war on plastic</strong> as officials introduce an ordinance that would ban straws that aren’t biodegradable…Hot cash. <strong>Would-be ATM thieves in Everett, Wash. thwarted their own burglary attempt</strong> by using a blowtorch in an attempt to access the cash box. The only problem --- they accidentally set the money on fire.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Tomorrow marks the anniversary of 1944’s D-Day in World War II. Usually, media emphasize important anniversaries. </span></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">So will that famous event (or Russia ) grab media attention?</span></strong></span></p></div><div class="feedflare">
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><em>NewsBusters</em> reports a poll by Harvard’s Center for American Political Studies with Harris Insights and Analytics finds 65 percent of voters believe the media are loaded with “fake news.”</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">The poll reveals 80 percent of Republicans, 60 percent of Independents and 53 percent of Democrats admit they couldn’t trust the mainstream media.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">The study’s writers say “conservative voters are turned off by the media’s eagerness to uncover all the dirt they could find in the White House, when in many cases, these stories ended up being full of nothing more than hot air.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Despite not trusting the media, just under half of those polled agreed that media are treating President Donald Trump unfairly.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">The poll also notes voters are more concerned than the media about who is leaking information out of the White House.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Seventy four percent agree leaks are a serious matter that need to be investigated.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">The <strong><em>Los Angeles Times</em> runs another in its periodic “big one coming” stories on earthquakes to shake up readers</strong> under a headline: <em>“</em><em>The Big One is going to happen, no matter how much you want to deny it, California scientists”…</em>During a Thursday press briefing, House Minority Leader <strong>Nancy Pelosi criticizes the president’s choice of visiting Saudi Arabia first</strong> during his inaugural foreign trip. “I thought it was unusual for the president of the United States to go to Saudi Arabia first. Saudi Arabia! “<strong>It wasn’t even alphabetical.</strong> I mean, Saudi Arabia”…A 22-year-old University of Central Florida student, <strong>accused of illegally logging into a Florida university's grading system to change his electronics class grade</strong> <strong>to B from F,</strong> faces a felony charge of accessing a computer without authorization…The Justice Department files a lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles for allegedly <strong>building and selling diesel engines that violated pollution standards</strong>. Involved are 104,000 <strong>Ram pickup trucks and Jeep Grand Cherokee sport-utility vehicles </strong>that contain software that violates U.S. emissions tests for diesels…<strong>Moving on up.</strong> <strong>Median pay for a female chief executives last year: $13.1 million vs. $11.4 million for male CEOs,</strong> according to an analysis by executive data firm Equilar and the <em>Associated Press…</em>Hollywood’s movie industry reached a record year in 2016 in total domestic box office grosses (via higher ticket prices).<strong> But the movie industry also is facing a shrinking audience</strong> as the number of tickets sold annually dipped by 80 million.</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>Newscast delayed by intruder. </strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Albuquerque’s <em>KOB-TV</em> delayed its Saturday night newscast after a man breached the back lot of the station and tried to enter the building. Police responded quickly and arrested the man on site.</span></p></div><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/HalMorris/grumpy_editor/~4/UC-WRbKhyrc" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://grumpyeditor.typepad.com/grumpy_editor/2017/05/poll-finds-most-believe-media-loaded-with-fake-news.htmlJournalists brains function subpar, finds British studytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c86cf53ef01b7c8fa8920970b2017-05-22T05:56:00-07:002017-05-22T05:56:00-07:00A British study finds journalists brains operate at a lower level than the average population because they consume too much alcohol, caffeine and sugar.Grumpy Editor<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Nothing new?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">A British study finds journalists brains operate at a lower level than the average population because of too much consumption of alcohol, caffeine and sugar, notes <strong>Grumpy Editor</strong>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Research by neuroscientist Tara Swart in partnership with the London Press Club, sought to figure out how journalists survive and thrive amid the stress of pressure with deadlines, lower pay than with most other professions, shaky job security and high levels of public scrutiny --- especially today with cries of “fake news.”</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">The study, involving 31 journalists, concludes participants’ brains are lacking in the executive functioning department, which encompasses high-level cognitive functions such as emotional control, complex problem-solving, multi-tasking and the ability to suppress biases.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">“It is likely that the levels of caffeine/alcohol and the lack of water consumed contributed to the low scores recorded for executive functioning because of the severe impact of dehydration on cognitive ability,” according to the study.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Most of the journalists in the survey say they enjoy their jobs and feel their work is worthwhile and important.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">The study concludes that this enables them to cope with stress better than people in other high-stress professions despite their challenges (and apparent shortcomings).</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">“I hope this study serves as a useful tool to journalists, but also to anyone who wants to understand how neuroscience can show us how to join up brain and body health, and through that become more mentally resilient,” mentions Dr. Swart.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><em>IN CASE YOUR FAVORITE NEWS OUTLETS MISSED THESE</em></strong>…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">U.S. media pointed out first lady Melania Trump, on arrival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday, did not cover her head. <strong>But head coverings aren't required for foreigners and most Western women go without.</strong> That includes non-covering in earlier visits by <strong>Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush</strong>…Citing they get better tax breaks and subsidies outside of Hollywood, <strong>producers of this summer's biggest-budget films continue to roll cameras elsewhere in the U.S. and overseas</strong>…Bill O’Reilly, after years at <em>Fox</em> <em>News,</em> will have <strong>a weekly spot on Glenn Beck’s radio show</strong>…Former vice president Joe Biden, appearing before hedge fund managers in Las Vegas, declares <strong>“I never thought (Hillary Clinton) was a great candidate.</strong> I thought I was a great candidate.”</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">The <em>Los Angeles Times</em> won’t like this.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">The<em> San Francisco Chronicle</em> on Saturday was named the state’s best large newspaper by the California Newspaper Publishers Association.</span></p></div><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/HalMorris/grumpy_editor/~4/qD_ZqtPKHwo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://grumpyeditor.typepad.com/grumpy_editor/2017/05/journalists-brains-function-subpar-finds-british-study.htmlSears CEO Lampert also gives bad marks to mediatag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c86cf53ef01b7c8f82142970b2017-05-15T05:56:00-07:002017-05-15T07:03:11-07:00Edward Lampert, chairman of Sears Holdings Corp., declares the media for years has "unfairly singled out" Sears' struggles in the retail industry.Grumpy Editor<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">President Donald Trump isn’t the only top official complaining about treatment by the media, notes <strong>Grumpy Editor</strong>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Edward Lampert, chairman of Sears Holdings Corp., declares the media for years have "unfairly singled out" Sears' struggles in the retail industry.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">At the company’s annual shareholders meeting at its Hoffman Estates headquarters near Chicago, Lampert blasts the media at length, pointing out negative headlines from years ago forecasting the end of the retail giant (that includes Sears and Kmart stores) and mentioning how other retailers, like J.C. Penney, Target and Macy's, also are struggling.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">"I felt we were unfairly singled out," Lampert tells shareholders and employees. “There's been a lot of headlines, including those on social media. And people want their stories to stand out, I understand that. Everyone wants people to read what they write. ... These have been extreme headlines written about us for the past 10 years. But we're still here."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">The problem with the negative press, Lampert complains, is the effect it has had on the company’s workforce and executives as well as how vendors do business with the company.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">"The biggest impact has been on our associates and how we recruit talent," says Lampert. "And vendors. They want our business, but they'll use those negative headlines to negotiate better terms for themselves."</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">He reveals to those at the meeting that shoppers should expect smaller stores in the future as the company looks at ways to improve business.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><em>IN CASE YOUR FAVORITE NEWS OUTLETS MISSED THESE</em></strong>…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">While media are focused on talk that Donald Trump, in his pre-president days in his Trump Tower office, used<strong> telephone taping devices</strong> (as many news folks have done in the past), <strong>North Korea on Sunday launched its latest ballistic missile, this one soaring 435 miles</strong> --- with the goal of eventually reaching San Francisco…An economic study finds <strong>journalism jobs around the country drop 22 percent in the past decade,</strong> but jump 38 percent in the nation's capital, reports Paul Bedard, the <em>Washington Examiner</em>'s "Washington Secrets" columnist. What's more, <strong>salaries for Washington journalists rose seven percent while diving nationally.</strong> As of 2015, there were 3,030 reporters in the D.C. metro area, compared with 2,190 a decade prior, he notes, adding some smaller metros are left with as few as 40 journalists…<strong>Will drought talk end?</strong> Only about five percent of the country is experiencing drought conditions now --- following record rain and snowfall over much of the country --- lowest level since government scientific agencies began updating the U.S. Drought Monitor on a weekly basis in 2000…In California,<strong> up to 300,000 baby salmon die</strong> in temporary holding ponds they’d been staying in since the Oroville Dam crisis in early February. <strong>Problem stems from a faulty wire for switching off a pump</strong> at the Thermalito hatchery…Anybody see coverage of this? Last week marked the 75<sup>th</sup> anniversary of <strong>World War II’s Battle of the Coral Sea</strong>, in which U.S. and Australian forces faced off against Japan from May 4-8, 1942. <strong>It marked the first time aircraft carriers engaged each other in a battle</strong> that resulted in 656 Allied and 966 Japanese deaths. Damage inflicted on two Japanese carriers forced them to avoid the pivotal <strong>Battle of Midway</strong> a month later…Also with scant coverage: <strong>Former President Barack Obama</strong>, for a speech on climate change, flew via private jet to Italy then went to his Milan destination in a <strong>14-car convoy, plus a helicopter and use of 300 police officers...<em>Time, Inc.</em> is cutting its quarterly dividend</strong> to four cents a share from 19.</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Seeking a few good --- women.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">The Marine Corps releases a TV commercial aimed at recruiting women.</span></strong></span></p></div><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/HalMorris/grumpy_editor/~4/ofgG-WH4Dhw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://grumpyeditor.typepad.com/grumpy_editor/2017/05/sears-ceo-lampert-also-gives-bad-marks-to-media.htmlBig 3 TV networks nix Trump’s first 100 days commercialtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c86cf53ef01bb0998fd16970d2017-05-08T05:56:00-07:002017-05-08T06:30:20-07:00Grumpy Editor notes the big three TV networks refuse to air a President Donald Trump commercial citing accomplishments of his administration’s first 100 days.Grumpy Editor<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>Grumpy Editor</strong> notes the big three TV networks refuse to air a President Donald Trump commercial citing accomplishments of his administration’s first 100 days.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Those news outlets, along with <em>CNN</em>, contend a “fake news” graphic superimposed over news anchors’ faces as the reason not to air the spot.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><em>ABC</em> also maintains the commercial represents a personal attack.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Interestingly, leading up to last November’s elections when national and local politicians were beating up their rivals in commercials, TV stations just sat back and watched political campaigns’ advertising dollars roll in despite an abundance of assorted and unverified claims.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">With <em>CNN’</em>s refusal to air the commercial, Trump supporters accuse the cable network of censorship for nixing the message spotlighting the president’s accomplishments in 100 days.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">The Trump commercial reports “America has rarely seen such success” and lists a series of actions from Trump’s first 100 days in office.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">“You wouldn’t know it from watching the news,” it continues, “America is winning and President Trump is making America great again.”</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><em>IN CASE YOUR FAVORITE NEWS OUTLETS MISSED THESE</em></strong>…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Business magazines turn to focus on TV personalities: <strong><em>Bloomberg Businessweek</em> devotes five pages to <em>Fox News'</em> Sean Hannity</strong> (wihout interviewing him) while <strong><em>Fortune</em> devotes a half page with "Five Questions for Larry King."</strong> Example directed to King: "How has the news business changed since you started? King: <strong>The change in TV has been unbelievable.</strong> But what I did in the late '50s is what I'm doing now, just transmitted differently"..<em>.</em><span class="Apple-style-span"><em>Variety</em> reports FCC chairman Ajit Pai says his agency will be looking into complaints made against <strong>Stephen Colbert</strong> “for what some labeled a homophobic joke about President Donald Trump”…<em>Gannett Co., Inc.</em>, publisher of newspapers coast to coast, <strong>eliminates a number of jobs at as many as 37 local newspapers around the country.</strong> Matt DeRienzo, executive director of LION Publishers, says, “Already-lean small town newsrooms were hit the hardest — papers such as the <em>Times-Herald</em> in Port Huron, Michigan, the <em>Reporter-News</em> in Abilene, Texas, the <em>Daily Record</em> in York, Pennsylvania, and the <em>Sun-News</em> in Las Cruces, New Mexico”…<em>Sinclair </em></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><em>Broadcast Group</em> is <strong>close to finalizing a deal</strong> to acquire <em>Tribune Media</em> for almost $4 billion, according to <em>Reuters</em>…</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><strong>Ever tax-hunting California is eyeing collecting taxes from space transportation companies</strong> based on a formula factoring in how often a company launches spacecrafts out of the state and, most importantly, how far a commercial spacecraft travels from Golden State soil…<strong>L</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>os Angeles Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez</strong> comes up with a sore right elbow. So that <strong>places him on the disabled list for the first time in his 14-year major league career</strong>, or 1,774 games, the most among active players.</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Hey, isn’t North Korea north of South Korea?</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Despite North Korea dominating the news and talk out of Washington in recent days, <strong>most Americans are fuzzy as to where the communist nation is located. </strong>That's the<strong> </strong> finding of a <em>Rasmussen Reports</em> survey.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>It tallies only 31 percent of adults think most Americans can locate North Korea on a map</strong> but 50 percent don’t think they could while 19 percent are not sure.</span></p></div><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/HalMorris/grumpy_editor/~4/l42U5xNOZKc" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://grumpyeditor.typepad.com/grumpy_editor/2017/05/big-3-tv-networks-nix-trumps-first-100-days-commercial.html"First 100 days' comments directed at the Presidenttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c86cf53ef01b8d27d9661970c2017-05-01T06:05:00-07:002017-05-01T06:15:38-07:00Grumpy Editor brings the following --- from a prime news source --- to your attention after a daily barrage of reading or hearing about the president’s “first 100 days” via print/broadcast outlets.Grumpy Editor<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; background-color: #fdeee0;"><strong>Grumpy Editor</strong> brings the following --- from a prime news source --- to your attention after a daily barrage of reading or hearing about the president’s “first 100 days” via print/broadcast outlets.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: #fdeee0;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">“In his first 100 days in office, the president has demonstrated a clear departure from his predecessor.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: #fdeee0;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">“The new administration has moved rapidly to revoke and alter policies that marked the legacy of the (previous administration).</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: #fdeee0;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">“The swift-moving president says he is trying to fulfill his campaign promises and supporters applaud his efforts.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: #fdeee0;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">"Critics say he could be putting too much on his already-full plate."</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; background-color: #fdeee0;">What media outlet carried that report?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; background-color: #fdeee0;">Hold on now.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; background-color: #fdeee0;"><strong>That was a portion of an <em>ABC News</em> report, April 29, 2009, referring to Barack Obama.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; background-color: #fdeee0;">Indeed, every incoming president gets a wild ride in his first 100 days in office. With President Donald Trump, it has been noisy wall-to-wall coverage.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; background-color: #fdeee0;">Now, look for continued cacophony on Trump’s “first 200 days.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; background-color: #fdeee0;">Meanwhile, not widely spotlighted are these “Trump bumps” so far this year.</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; background-color: #fdeee0;">In January, the Dow Jones Industrial average rose above 20,000 for the first time and closed Friday almost 1,000 points higher at 20,940.51.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; background-color: #fdeee0;">Standard &amp; Poor’s 500 index rose 5.5 percent to more than 2,232 points in the first quarter.</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #fdeee0;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; background-color: #fdeee0;">Consumer confidence in March (latest reporting month), reached a 16-year high.</span></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; background-color: #fdeee0;"><strong>Today being May Day, look for heavy coverage of rallies, marches and protests</strong> in the U.S. --- and around the world. Nothing new here. Such coverage has been going on for decades. <strong>New element, however, is immigrant groups and their allies will be active</strong>…Without President Donald Trump in attendance, <strong>speakers at Saturday night’s annual White House Correspondents' dinner promote press freedom and responsibility </strong>while challenging Trump’s accusations of dishonest reporting. At the same time, hosting a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pa., Trump tells the crowd, “A large group of Hollywood actors and Washington media are consoling each other in a hotel ballroom in our nation's capital right now --- and <strong>I could not possibly be more thrilled than to be more than 100 miles away from Washington's swamp</strong>, spending my evening with all of you and with a much, much larger crowd and much better people”…A <em>Morning Consult </em>poll finds <strong>roughly half (51 percent) of Americans say the national political media “is out of touch with everyday Americans,”</strong> compared with 28 percent who say it “understands the issues everyday Americans are facing”…<em>Fortu</em>ne magazine reports <strong>Facebook released a report “effectively admitting that its network had been used in orchestrated attempts to manipulate public opinion about political issues</strong>, including the U.S. election”…<strong>United Airlines issues</strong><strong> a 10-point plan to improve customer relations </strong>after the recent fiasco involving forcible removal of a passenger from an overbooked flight. The one that grabbed most attention was <strong>an increase in maximum compensation to $10,000 </strong>for voluntary denied boarding. It also pledges only to call on law enforcement for safety and security issues. This follows <strong>the latest customer complaint about a giant showcase rabbit that died after being shipped from London across the Atlantic</strong>…<em>Forbes, </em>the business magazine, <strong>plans to launch an Italian-language version</strong> monthly in partnership with an Italian digital and media company…<strong>Albertsons</strong>, third-biggest food retailer in the U.S. after Wal-Mart and Kroger, <strong>is considering a bid for Whole Foods</strong>, reports <em>Financial Times.</em></span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; background-color: #fdeee0;"><strong>Gotta watch those “buts” leading to editorializing in a headline</strong>, example:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; background-color: #fdeee0;">“Trump stumbled on healthcare and immigration, but he's been 'a wrecking ball' on the environment --- <em>Los Angeles Times.</em></span></p></div><div class="feedflare">
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Hey, is there any good news around?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Apparently not much, using Saturday morning’s edition of a newspaper, largest in its state, as an example of something to kick off the weekend with perhaps some indigestion along with morning coffee and a muffin, notes <strong>Grumpy Editor</strong>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Most stories seem to originate from law enforcement agencies.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Front page gets right into it with one of three long pieces devoted to a local man “accused of trafficking teenager.”</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Among other items in the opening pages: Mental evaluation for Fresno suspect; Prosecutors file charges in genital mutilation case; Man kills 2, injures 1 before shot dead at office; More than 100 men accused of seeking sex from minors; record homicides reached since 2011 cartel clashes; Violence leaves dozen dead in Venezuelan capital area; Stabbing suspect believed cartel was after him; Parking lot shooting injures one, arrest made; Blood-covered nude man hospitalized, critical; Officers, drivers injured in crash amid traffic stop; Victim of rollover crash identified; Teen, city settle lawsuit over molestation by cop.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Any good news in the edition?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Well, sort of. On the religion page, top story is on “Taking steps to combat hatred.”</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Ads contribute to gloom and doom, too. A quarter page security screens pitch, for example, carries the headline, “Protect your home, protect your family.” Included is an illustration of a masked bad guy in black garb ready to swing a baseball bat.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Other newspapers --- and broadcast outlets --- also go heavy on crime these days.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Whatever happened to coverage of Boy Scouts helping little old ladies?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Well, there’s always the weather forecast --- unless rain is predicted.</span></em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Navy veterans are shaking their heads over the <strong>changes being made in submarines</strong> --- for women now serving on them. Designers are <strong>giving women sailors more doors, washrooms, sleeping and bathing areas, plus with more privacy, along with lowering of some overhead valves and installing steps leading to triple-high bunk beds</strong>. These will be incorporated in the upcoming USS New Jersey. But the ship is <strong>not scheduled to be delivered until 2021</strong>…<strong>Bill O'Reilly</strong> <strong>reportedly will receive up to a $25 million payout</strong> following his exit from <em>Fox News...</em>How strange is North Korea? Otto Warmbier,who was a 21-year-old University of Virginia student from suburban Cincinnati, remains behind bars after being <strong>sentenced last year to 15 years of hard labor in a North Korea prison</strong> after he confessed to (ready for this?)--- <strong>trying to steal a propaganda banner</strong>...<strong>Tesla Inc.</strong>, the electric car maker, discloses its billionaire Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk <strong>paid at least $593 million in income taxes</strong> last year…<strong>Sinclair Broadcast Group is adding 14 television stations</strong> via purchasing Bonten Media Group Holdings...A U.S. federal judge ordered <strong>Volkswagen to pay a $2.8 billion criminal fine</strong> in the rigging of diesel-powered vehicles case...<strong> IBM, once the darling of business editors in grabbing space in their sections, posts its 20<sup>th</sup> straight quarter of falling revenue,</strong> despite a 12 percent gain from its new businesses…America's chief federal banking regulator admits the agency failed to act on <strong>numerous "red flags" at Wells Fargo</strong> <strong>that could have stopped the fake account scandal</strong> at the bank years earlier. It cites an overlooked key red flag In January 2010, when the regulator was aware of <strong>"700 cases of whistleblower complaints"</strong> about sales tactics”…<strong>Google</strong> is planning to introduce an ad-blocker on the mobile and desktop versions of its Chrome internet browser…<strong>University of Tennessee’s student-run newspaper, Daily Beacon, is cutting its print edition to twice weekly</strong> in the fall from five days a week during the past five decades…The number of out-of-work people collecting unemployment checks <strong>dropped to a 17-year low in</strong> April.</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">British insurance company Aviva’s annual Home Report surveys 2,004 people on how they handle relatively common tasks around the house and finds<strong> one in five not being able to change a light bulb.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Well, what else is new? asks <strong>Grumpy Editor</strong>.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Few in media seem to be aware that the Korean War, which started 67 years ago, remains open-ended.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Also labeled the “forgotten war,” the Korean War erupted when 135,000 communist North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea in pre-dawn hours of June 25, 1950. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Battles ended with a cease fire on July 27, 1953. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">North and South Korea technically remain at war with no peace treaty. </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">For the U.S., it resulted in 36,940 military deaths, 103,000 wounded, 8,142 missing in action and 3,746 prisoners of war. </span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">North Korea now likes to shake up the U.S., South Korea and Japan, among others, by conducting a series of nuclear and missile tests.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Over the weekend North Korea showed off its military arsenal during a Saturday parade that was widely covered. Then later, the latest --- and much touted --- North Korean missile blew up almost immediately after its test launch.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Meanwhile, with rising tensions on the Korean peninsula, less covered is a U.S. aircraft that arrived on Okinawa. The <span class="Apple-style-span">WC-135, also known as the "nuclear sniffer," specializes in detecting </span></span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">radioactive debris after a nuclear device detonation.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">President Donald Trump last week tweeted, “North Korea is looking for trouble. If China decides to help, that would be great. If not, we will solve the problem without them! U.S.A.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">As far as “help” is concerned, what seems to be forgotten is that China indeed helped during the Korean War --- by providing support in both material and especially in soldiers (battling U.S. troops on the ground) to aid North Korea.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">What many seem to overlook is that nuclear disarmament talks have been going on for years. The routine has been for North Korea to talk, followed by pauses, then more talks, followed by no final action.</span></em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">With all the <strong>highly negative publicity triggered by United Airlines actions over the past week that sparked outrage</strong> following the dragging of a ticketed and seated doctor passenger off a plane to make room for a United employee, and issuance of a string of apologies from United CEO Oscar Munoz, major media missed these:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"> Munoz last year won <strong>PRWeek's Communicator of the Year</strong> award and Fortune magazine's <strong>Business Person of the Year</strong> list (No. 20).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><em>Talking Biz News</em> reports <em>Marijuana Business Daily</em> now is an <em>Associated Press</em> member, <strong>giving the cannabis-focused publication access to marijuana-related stories from around the world</strong>…Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, which nudged past GM in market value last week, reveals <strong>the electric car company will unveil its first semi truck in September</strong>, followed by a pickup truck in about two years…<strong>Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway says it has withdrawn its application to the Federal Reserve to boost its ownership of Wells Fargo</strong> beyond 10 percent. Berkshire is the largest shareholder in the San Francisco-based bank that has been <strong>smacked by a scandal involving creation of unauthorized customer accounts</strong>…In a compilation obviously before an anticipated high snow melt in coming weeks, <strong>American Rivers, a national conservation organization, labels the lower Colorado River as the most endangered river in the nation.</strong> The river supplies water to Southern Nevada, Arizona, California --- <strong>and seldom-mentioned Mexico.</strong></span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>Another Mexican reporter killed</strong>.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">A police beat reporter for <em>Colectivo Pericu</em> is shot and killed in La Paz on the Baja California peninsula.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">It marks the sixth attack in one-and-a-half months against journalists in Mexico and the fourth that resulted in death.</span></strong></span></p></div><div class="feedflare">
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Brown declared the emergency in 2014 and officials later ordered mandatory conservation for the first time in state history.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">But now, brown grass has given way to green and residents, with lifted restrictions, can now take longer showers.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">However, rather than building more reservoirs to cope with increased water usage from growing population and more farming, keeping an eye on conservation will continue, say state officials who don’t seem to be concerned about precious Golden State water being wasted by flowing to the Pacific Ocean.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Over recent months, billions of gallons of water are being released from lakes and rivers, even including the Los Angeles River, to avert flooding. Some areas discharge water to protect endangered smelt and salmon.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Water conservation will be a way of life in California, reminds Felicia Marcus, who heads the State Water Resources Control Board. “This drought has been one for the record books, but it won’t be our last or longest,” she predicts.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>On the campus front:</strong> A bill before a Vermont House committee would <strong>protect student journalists and their media advisers</strong>. It calls for content not to be suppressed because it involves political or controversial subject matter or is critical of the school or its administration. Meanwhile, <strong>colleges, seeing an upswing in demand for creative writing courses</strong>, are adding writing programs to accommodate interest in that area. The <strong>number of schools offering bachelor's degrees in creative writing has jumped to 733 from three in 1975</strong>, according to the Association of Writers &amp; Writing Programs, an industry group based at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><em>Fox News' </em><strong>Bill O'Reilly's new book <em>Old School: Life in the Sane Lane</em> debuts on top of the <em>New York Times</em> bestseller list</strong> amid reports that <em>21st Century Fox</em>, parent company of <em>Fox News</em>, paid millions of dollars to five women who accused O'Reilly of sexual harassment…<em><strong>How much did you make in your current or last job?</strong> </em>The New York City Council votes legislation that bans employers from asking job applicants that question…Warren Buffett’s <em>Berkshire Hathaway Inc.</em> <strong>eliminates 289 jobs at its newspapers amid a decline in print readership and advertising revenue</strong>…Oops! A 58-year-old <strong>pilot was arrested on suspicion of operating an aircraft while under the influence after he landed his single-engine Piper on the warehouse parking lot</strong> of fashion designer Michael Kors distribution center, Whittier, Calif…A global coalition of tech leaders, academic institutions, nonprofits and funders, including <em>Facebook, Mozilla</em> and <em>Craigslist </em>Founder Craig Newmark, are behind a <strong>$14 million initiative to combat declining trust in news media and advance news literacy</strong>. It will be administered by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism…<strong>Adults over 18 years old watched 27.1 billion minutes of cable news in 2016,</strong> a 44 percent jump from the 18.8 billion minutes in 2015, according to a <em>Nielsen</em> report…A <strong>newspaper at the Mexican border city Juarez is shutting down</strong> because rampant killings of journalists in the area have made it too dangerous for operations to continue...<strong>Look for bank shareholders stirring at Wells Fargo's annual meeting April 25</strong> after Institutional Shareholder Services says the majority of the bank's board of directors should be removed because of lack of oversight on the recent sales practices scandal...<strong>Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein will reunite</strong> at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner with a speech defending “a free and independent press”…<em>Added</em> <em>ingredient:</em> A consumer in Florida reported finding <strong>a dead bat in a packaged salad mix</strong>.</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Sharp headline over a <em>Wall Street Journal</em> story on the razor business:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>Gillette, in Change, Shaves Prices</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">BIA/Kelsey’s 2017 Investing in Radio report indicates radio will surpass newspapers and become the fifth-largest media category among advertisers by 2021.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">The report adds that nearly a century after radio stations began accepting commercials, the medium now takes about 10 percent of all local ad revenue and its fastest growing segment is on digital platforms.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">BIA/Kelsey notes radio stations digital advertising income was up 14 percent last year, along with a slight increase in over-the-air income that continues to grab the biggest chunk of about $14.1 billion.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">“In an age where consumers have many entertainment choices, local radio maintains its strength and popularity in the marketplace among national and local advertisers,” says Mark Fratrik, senior vice president and chief economist at BIA/Kelsey.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">The report projects radio revenue reaching $14.9 billion this year, topping $16 billion by 2021.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">The news-talk category shows the most improvement for 2016.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Highest earning local radio station last year: <em>WTOP</em>, Washington, D.C. with $67.5 million in ad revenue.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Direct mail remains the most lucrative segment of local ad spending.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><em>IN CASE YOUR FAVORITE NEWS OUTLETS MISSED THESE…</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>California on Saturday upped the state tax on a pack of cigarettes by $2</strong>, making the average cost per pack now a steep $7.89…<strong>Monthly index of pending home sales jumped 5.5 percent in February</strong>, 2.6 percent higher than a year prior…Investigation into possible connections between <strong>Russian agents and the Trump campaign was the most-talked-about story on news/talk radio</strong> last week, notes<em> Talkers</em> magazine...Along with that, <span class="Apple-style-span"><strong>Grumpy Editor</strong> observes a <strong>daily overused phrase since <em>before</em> the November election</strong>: <em>Russian meddling</em>… Quote of the week? At the daily White House briefing, Sean Spicer, press secretary, tells media, <strong>"If the president puts Russian dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a Russian connection”</strong>…</span><strong>Wells Fargo agrees to pay $110 million to settle a class-action lawsuit</strong> over accounts its staff opened without clients' consent. It marks the first private settlement that Wells has reached since paying $185 million to federal and local authorities last year over its sales practices…<strong>Now sprouting gray hairs is the PR department at Bank of America</strong> after a bankruptcy judge issued a $45 milliion fine, citing the bank's treatment of a Calif0rnia couple who fought to save their home as "brazen" and "heartless"...The White House staff is joining in skipping this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner…<strong>Despite California’s steepest Sierra Nevada springtime snowpack in years</strong> --- with snowdrifts up to 20 feet deep at higher elevations, <strong>the Golden State remains under drought declaration</strong>…T<em>he</em> <em>Guardian</em>, London, reports<strong> a Staffordshire bull terrier mauled its owner to death while he was being interviewed</strong> by a <em>BBC</em> film crew...Rule: <em>Don’t get your newspaper carrier</em> <em>upset.</em> A<strong> 42-year old newspaper carrier in the northern German city of Lueneburg stabbed a 51-year-old customer multiple times</strong> with a knife, killing the subscriber who police say repeatedly complained about delivery problems.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">With a handle on that is the <em>New York Post’s</em> John Crudele who points out: “These are the same polls that said Hillary Clinton would be in the White House right now. Not only that, but they said Clinton would easily win the presidency.”</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Crudele adds, “Pollsters must love these between-election polls because they can report anything and not be proved wrong. It’s when there is an election coming up that they really stick their necks out.”</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">And what about the media’s role in carrying out the findings?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Concludes Crudele: “The media, of course, are complicit in the pollsters’ scam. Without the press, the polls would go unnoticed.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><em>IN CASE YOUR FAVORITE NEWS OUTLETS MISSED THESE..</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>Now that’s pinpointing the action.</strong> A <em>Fox News</em> item, with a video of swinging fists, Saturday night mentions pro and anti Donald Trump forces <strong>fighting in California with no mention of exactly where</strong> in the third most extensive state --- with 163,696 square miles. (It was in Huntington Beach, in Orange County)…Despite a busy news day, <em>Associated Press</em>, in <strong>a "this is big news" report from Hanoi</strong>, manages to alert U.S. media that Vietnam’s aviation authority suspended three air traffic controllers, including one who fell asleep while on duty…<strong>Where is the beef?</strong> A <em>New York Times</em> report finds <strong>Americans ate 19 percent less beef from 2005 to 2014</strong>…<em>The Hollywood Reporter </em>agrees <strong>to pay $900,000 to freelancers</strong> as part of a settlement with a class action lawsuit…The Army will be welcoming thousands of new soldiers in coming months <strong>to fill gaps in tactical units’ combat readiness</strong>…Chris Roush, writing in <em>Talking Biz News</em>, reports a Women’s Media Center study shows <strong>female bylines at the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> dropped</strong> from 39.2 percent in 2015 to 34.3 percent in last year’s Sept. 1 to Nov. 30 period…<strong>Joining the cancellation crowd linked to next month’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner are <em>Time</em> and <em>People</em> magazines'</strong> annual pre-dinner celebrity-heavy social gathering…Kaiser Family Foundation reports in 24 of the nation’s 50 states<strong> at least half of the babies born in the latest year tally (2015) had births paid via Medicaid.</strong> Top three states: New Mexico, Arkansas and Louisiana...The <em>Wall Street Journal</em> reports <strong>median pay for CEOs of the 100 biggest U.S. companies rose nearly 7 percent last year</strong> to $11.5 million.</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">WalletHub, Washington, D.C. analysts compare all states and District of Columbia across 18 key metrics, with data ranging from share of STEM professionals to R&amp;D spending per capita to average Internet speed to come up with the <strong>most and least innovative.</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong><u>Most Innovative States</u></strong></p>
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<p>1</p>
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<td width="212">
<p>District of Columbia</p>
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<p>42</p>
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<p>Maine</p>
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<p>Maryland</p>
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<p>43</p>
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<td width="227">
<p>South Dakota</p>
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<td width="34">
<p>3</p>
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<td width="212">
<p>Massachusetts</p>
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<td width="42">
<p>44</p>
</td>
<td width="227">
<p>Iowa</p>
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<td width="34">
<p>4</p>
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<p>California</p>
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<p>45</p>
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<p>Tennessee</p>
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<p>5</p>
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<p>Colorado</p>
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<p>46</p>
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<td width="227">
<p>North Dakota</p>
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<td width="34">
<p>6</p>
</td>
<td width="212">
<p>Washington</p>
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<td width="42">
<p>47</p>
</td>
<td width="227">
<p>Oklahoma</p>
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<td width="34">
<p>7</p>
</td>
<td width="212">
<p>Virginia</p>
</td>
<td width="44"> </td>
<td width="42">
<p>48</p>
</td>
<td width="227">
<p>Kentucky</p>
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<td width="34">
<p>8</p>
</td>
<td width="212">
<p>Utah</p>
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<td width="44"> </td>
<td width="42">
<p>49</p>
</td>
<td width="227">
<p>Louisiana</p>
</td>
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<td width="34">
<p>9</p>
</td>
<td width="212">
<p>Connecticut</p>
</td>
<td width="44"> </td>
<td width="42">
<p>50</p>
</td>
<td width="227">
<p>Mississippi</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="34">
<p>10 </p>
</td>
<td width="212">
<p>New Hampshire</p>
</td>
<td width="44"> </td>
<td width="42">
<p>51</p>
</td>
<td width="227">
<p>West Virginia</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">The latest report warns, “Earth in February sizzled to its second hottest temperature on record, behind only last year” with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) calculating last month averaged 55.66 degrees or 1.76 degrees warmer than the 20<sup>th</sup> century average.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">The <em>New York Times </em>on Jan. 18 played up Earth “reached its highest temperature on record in 2016, trouncing a record set only a year earlier, which beat one set in 2014. It is the first time in the modern era of global warming data that temperatures have blown past the previous record three years in a row.”</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">In explaining how the readings are reached, <em>The Times</em> should be commended for explaining,<em> "</em>In addition to the surface measurements, satellites are used to measure the temperature of the atmosphere within a few miles of the surface.”</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Amplifying that --- and seldom included in "global warming" stories --- Grumpy Editor points out main methods to measure air temperature today are via land-based thermometers, radiosondes (instruments on weather balloons) and satellites with microwave emissions. Other readings are compiled from ships and buoys. On land, digital thermometers, periodically requiring recalibration, have replaced the long-used and accurate mercury bulb thermometers.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">In tallying temperatures, however, in most cities readings can vary by several degrees. In Las Vegas, for example, while the official reading may show 104 degrees, it can be 98 in other sections.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">NOAA, in its global analysis this month regarding temperatures, explains it this way:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">“In the atmosphere, 500-millibar height pressure anomalies correlate well with temperatures at the Earth's surface. The average position of the upper-level ridges of high pressure and troughs of low pressure --- depicted by positive and negative 500-millibar height anomalies on the February 2017 and December-February 2017 maps --- is generally reflected by areas of positive and negative temperature anomalies at the surface, respectively.”</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Got that?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Earth’s radius, the distance from the planet’s center to its surface, is about 3,959 miles. <strong>Circumference of the Earth</strong> at the equator is 24,901.55 miles. <strong> </strong>Earth has mountains, jungles, oceans, deserts, wastelands, lakes, rivers and concrete-laced cities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">That’s a vast area to compile accurate temperature readings.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><em>IN CASE YOUR FAVORITE NEWS OUTLETS MISSED THESE...</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>Happy first day of spring!</strong>...Whew! After weeks of media discussions and predictions on when it is going to happen,<strong> the Federal Reserve finally raised its benchmark lending rate a quarter point and projected two more increases later this year</strong> as inflation approaches its target. <strong>Look for more predictions</strong> on when the second increase is expected…Colorful “live” chatter: <em>CNN’</em>s <strong>Fareed Zakaria resorted to saying bullsh---ing four times</strong> on Don Lemon’s <em>CNN Tonight</em> program Friday evening in referring to President Donald Trump,..Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on <em>Fox News</em> suggested <strong>Trump should form a “nonsense patrol” to cope with nonsensical charges</strong>…Veteran broadcast journalist <strong>Willow Bay has been named dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism</strong>, effective July 1…In <strong>illustrating a story on current environment, the <em>Las Vegas Sun</em> ran an almost half-page photo of smog-cloaked Los Angeles using a vintage July 15, 1978 <em>Associated Press</em> photo</strong>...<em>American Media</em>, publisher of <em>National Enquirer</em> and <em>Star</em>, has<strong> agreed to buy <em>Us Weekly</em></strong>, founded in 1977, from <em>Wenner Media</em> which has <em>Rolling</em> <em>Stone</em> and <em>Men’s Journal</em> in its stable.</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><em>Fortune magazine’s </em>20th annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, puts <strong>Google in the No. 1 spot for the sixth year in a row</strong>. </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">In second place is<em> </em>Wegmans Food Markets, which <em>Fortune</em> says has managed to keep a family feel among its almost 47,000 employees.</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Well, South African watersport pro Chris Bertish did just that --- and received limited U.S. media coverage of that amazing adventure that took 93 days on a custom-made, 1,360-pound, 20-foot-long paddle board fitted with a small cabin and solar panels.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6e0tmWWUAEpTVZ.jpg:small"></img></span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><em>CNN</em> and the <em>New York Times</em> ran stories on the accomplishment. But most other major media were busy detailing and analyzing Washington happenings.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Bertish paddled off from Agadir, Morocco, on Dec. 6 and arrived at English Harbour, Antigua, on March 9.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Also, Bertish set the record for the farthest distance traveled solo, unsupported and unassisted over open ocean in a day, 72 miles.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;">Well, that’s what <em>AP</em> did in the new administration with vice president Mike Pence’s wife, Karen.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;">What’s more, despite a request to take down the story with the private email address, the news service refused to follow through.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;">On Saturday Pence tweeted, “When we requested they take it down, they refused. The <em>AP</em> owes my wife an apology.” With that he sent a copy of a letter to <em>AP</em>’s top executive from Mark Paoletta, counsel to the vice president.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;">In the letter Paoletta said Mrs. Pence was subjected to "vitriolic and malicious emails and raised serious security concerns."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;">He added, "There was absolutely no reason to publish this private email address, and you should be ashamed of your reprehensible conduct.”</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;"><em>WABC-TV</em> reporter CeFaan Kim, wrapping up a live report Friday in New York City’s Lower East Side, ended up fighting off an assailant in a hockey mask in a bizarre clash caught on camera. </span></p>
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